NärCon 2014!

NärCon 2014!

A couple of weeks ago we went to Sweden for NärCon 2014 as guests of honour, for some reason. Us? Guests of honour? That’s silly! But we’d never turn down an invitation to go to Sweden, because Sweden is awesome and we want to live there forever and ever. So we agreed, and started getting everything ready for the event.

NärCon is a cosplay and anime convention for East Asian pop culture. It was the first cosplay convention I – Simon – have ever been to, and the first time I’ve ever cosplayed, so I figured it’s best to try to not half-ass my costume. I decided to go as Honey Senpai from Ouran Host Club…20 years later. Honey can’t seem to graduate because he’s so bad at math, so he continues to work for the Host Club, even though he’s way past his cuteness prime. Cakey gotdamn cakey!

Martina had her dress custom made by Priscilladawn – a dress shop that she’s been shopping at since 2012 – so she could look like one of the girls that attend the Host Clubs. Honey wasn’t really that good at being a host anymore, though, so he kinda neglects her. She won’t take no for an answer, so she sasaengs all over the place. Yes, we were kinda inspired by Kpop. Ha! Simon’s Ouran Host Club uniform patch was made by anruiukimi and was totally perfect! We also got an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D patch and it was flawless too.

Anyhow, we’ve got a bunch of pics from the event as well, in our pretty galleries that we love putting up whenever we travel. Yay for pictures!

He goes everywhere with Martina

Tarts at the airport? Don’t mind if we do!

Nothing like taking pics of the land below when you’re flying

You might be bored by this, but look at how cute the rest stop was! AYEEEEE!!

Because flying is such an energy drain

Jesus! Sweden is so lovely!

I really like the view

Time to transform into stalker mode

Gotta keep it official

Honey Sempai is a bit too tall…but Martina still loves em both :D

NOTICE ME!

YAY!

Cakey cakey cakey…kinda!

Thanks for partaking in our skit :D

Cakeys are the best!

Together forever!

All that sugar makes you sleepy sleepy sleepy!

Thanks for listening to us talk. We didn’t think so many of you would know who we were, so we made our presentation for a more general audience. Oops!

I love my wife!

DEM BE FIGHTIN WORDS!

Cool dude

The two of us competed against each other in a game show in which the loser had to eat gross stuff.

They were called the babes, and they were awesome babes and loads of fun on stage.

I like, knew Mario before he was big, before he got the mushroom.

We don’t do normal

Lots of fart signs in Sweden.

Gross Butt!

Linköping was gorgeous :D

This is Swedish beer?

I like it when signs do this.

Maja was our handler for Narcon, and she was absolutely lovely. Thank you for taking such great care of us!

We’ll see you again in Sweden soon!

There was a cupcake making shop, and they stayed open way past closing time for us. Thank you for waiting! The cupcakes were delicious!

It’s the end, and we’re ready to sleep!

We told you that Martina takes her pig everywhere, right?

I really hope Ikea in Korea has Ikea food. Oh man. I’m so excited!

For our lat night

Kindofa couple shot?

That’s what we do

Give it to me now!

Fennel Soup with Crawfish baggghhhrrrlll drool

Awww yuss so barbarically delicious

Moose is so delicious. Seriously Canada: how have we not eaten this glorious beast into extinction?!

you die fast and you die good

Our flight was at 6AM, so we had to wake up stupid early. Errrrgghhh

If you went to Narcon and attended our signing event, first of all, thank you for waiting so long in the heat! I’m sorry that it had to be rushed in the end but we went way over the allotted time. If it were up to us we’d stay there with you all day. Secondly, if you want your picture, you can get them here!

Lastly, we’re getting back to doing coffee shop stuff. AYEEE!!! The grand opening is less than three days away! We’re getting everything in order, but we’ve still got videos going up tomorrow and Saturday. Click on the pretty subscribe button below so you don’t miss out!

Your costumes were awesome. After you posted the photo of your costume, I started watching Ouran HSHC, thanks for turning me on to such a great anime!
Martina, how do you get your makeup to stay put in such hot weather? If you haven’t made a video about that, please do. I love your makeup tutorials.

First of all, thank you so much for coming to NärCon, you guys are awesome and you had me laughing non-stop! *__* And I was SO inspired by the talk show you were in, about geekdom and stuff~ ^_^
I hope you had a fantastic time, and come to Sweden again soon! <3
(Don't know if you remember me, but I was second in line for the signing, with a Japanese yukata and an eye mask-thing & I gave you guys a drawing :D!)

I just watched the video of your performance at Närcon. Something that really fascinates me, is that you two seem so natural while talking to the audience even though you say afterwards that you were in fact extremely nervios. But I guess that is EatYourKimchi´s charm – that naturalfunnydorkey side of you.

Thank you soo much for coming to NärCon! It really made my convention so much better! And Simon if you had released the Video Gaming video before the con you could attend to either the Video game contest in Smash Bros Melee/Brawl or the Mario Kart DD/8!! Next time you are challanged in Mario Kart DD or 8! Becouse I’m the king of MK ;P

This was so much fun to watch! I was really excited to see what you guys did at the convention!
I loved your cosplays (even though I still have yet to watch Ouran – don’t hurt me!) Martina looked super cute!

If you guys are going to end up back in the US next year you should try to hit up Anime Expo (California) or my hometown convention Anime Central. I don’t know about Anime Expo but Anime Central has a growing Kpop scene and while the main focus is still anime, a panel by you guys would be HUGE!

You guys should totally go to Anime Expo next year, it’s usually the 3rd-6th of July. They usually have a kpop dance contest thing and a few panels about kpop. It’d be really cool to meet you guys at anime expo or vidcon next year or something. :D

I love that you two did this little skit even though your schedule must have been swamped. We really appreciate all the hard work you constantly put in to provide us needy nasties with a steady stream of fun videos!
Haha, trust you to make ‘sasaeng’ a verb- that was brilliant. HONEY SENPAI IS MINE indeed. I imagine Martina’s character to be a super long-term stalker of Honey senpai- like, 10+ years of trying to get him to notice her. And she flunks her classes on purpose so she can attend school with senpai forever. SOMEBODY WRITE THIS FANFIC!

I just…I don’t…um…I dunno…*sigh*…you guys are crazy. And by crazy, I mean awesome. I neither figuratively nor anatomically have the balls to pull off any of the sillyness that you guys do. Kudos! ^_^ Now I have to watch this, what is it called, Ouran High School Host club? Ah, yes. P.s. Did those contacts hurt your eyeballs?